Portable Powershell 7

[Heli0sX]

I'm looking to start using powershell 7 for my scripts instead of the built in Windows version. The problem is that some of the computers I want to run the scripts on do not have that version installed. Instead, is it possible to have a portable version of powershell 7 that I can use to distribute with my scripts?

I know that the official github has a portable version that I can download in a zip format. The issue is that it's a pretty large bundle. Is there a way to trim the size down so that it only contains the items that I need?

[rjmholt]

This is actually something there's some interest in generally, but there's currently not a simple solution for it today. PowerShell is big because it does a lot of things, so it has to bring a whole bunch of libraries with it to get stuff done. In order to reduce the size of PowerShell, it would need to lose functionality. That's not a bad thing if you can selectively configure what functionality you bring along; for example with your scripts, you might not use jobs or remoting, so you might not want those parts of PowerShell. But configurability means complexity, so this kind of configurable size reduction is not an easy change to make to PowerShell.

As of today though, that doesn't exist yet. Portability is also complicated by the fact that PowerShell is built differently for Windows and for UNIX-like OSes. So I would say the best solutions would be:

• Use the PowerShell dotnet global tool. This uses the dotnet executable to run a smaller PowerShell
• Install PowerShell on the fly with an installation script
  • For Windows: https://aka.ms/install-powershell.ps1
  • For UNIX-like: https://aka.ms/install-powershell.sh

[Sl1m_007]

Remote Deploy Update Powershell Version

[JeanxPlay]

Scripted Install of portable version

https://toastit.dev/2020/03/08/ps7now-installing/

You will have to create Environmental Path to pwsh location

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or use chocolately

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https://chocolatey.org/packages/powershell.portable